Marko Tadić
Prevented Landscapes (2024)
Commissioned work
Courtesy of the artist
Dates
20.9.2024–16.2.2025
Details
Mixed-media installation
Location
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Part of
Horror Patriae: Exhibition
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
There is an underlying conflict in the works of Marko Tadić that might not be obvious at first glance, a hidden critical edge in his research displays and installations. From afar, many of them look like modernist exhibitions in miniature, made in tribute to early 20th-century abstraction and involving intricately crafted stands, shelves, and holders that are works of art in themselves.
Mimicking small breviaries from canonical art history, they display postcards of 19th-century Europe, overpainted with abstract forms inspired by the biological shapes familiar from early- to mid-20th-century art. These forms partially blot out the cities of a continent destroyed by two world wars as well as more recent conflicts. They appear as alien insertions, hints at an uncertain future of which the solid historicist buildings remain oblivious. The painted shapes offer a vague perspective on modernity that the 19th century opened like a Pandora’s box.
Retrospective
Retrospective